Trump 'morally unfit' for presidency

Asked if Mr Trump was unfit to be president, Mr Comey said: “Yes. But not in the way I often hear people talk about it.

“I don't buy this stuff about him being mentally incompetent or early stages of dementia. He strikes me as a person of above average intelligence who's tracking conversations and knows what's going on.

“A person who sees moral equivalence in Charlottesville, who talks about and treats women like they're pieces of meat, who lies constantly about matters big and small and insists the American people believe it, that person's not fit to be president of the United States, on moral grounds.”

'Possible' Russian kompromat on Trump

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Mr Comey declined to rule out the possibility that the Russians had some compromising material on Mr Trump.

Pushed again over whether Mr Trump should be impeached, Mr Comey said: “I'll give you a strange answer.

“I hope not because I think impeaching and removing Donald Trump from office would let the American people off the hook and have something happen indirectly that I believe they're duty bound to do directly.

“People in this country need to stand up and go to the voting booth and vote their values.”